Ségolène Royal wants to return to service. The former candidate for the 2007 presidential election has announced her intention to lead a list bringing together left-wing forces, including La France insoumise, for the 2024 European election. However, the Greens and the Communist Party have already chosen their list headers.
“It’s about launching a dynamic of union”, declared Ségolène Royal in front of the press, on the sidelines of the summer universities of La France insoumise. Could she lead this list herself? “That’s the idea,” she replied.
“I am going into a dynamic of convergence”, with in particular LFI and the young socialists, who have come out in favor of a common list in the European elections, declared in particular Ms. Royal. “We need a just order in Europe […] We will show them that there is an alternative,” she said to the press, defending herself from any “backtracking”.
“If the left is not united with the next European […] it will disappear, it will have been so disappointed in its division”, had estimated a little earlier the former socialist minister, during a debate with the leader of LFI, Manual Bompard. This exchange with Manuel Bompard was an opportunity for Ségolène Royal to be warmly applauded several times by the Insoumis militants, in particular when she welcomed the opposition of Nupes to the pension reform at the start of the year.
“Anger needs to be expressed, to make noise,” she said. During her day with the Insoumis in the Drôme, Ségolène Royal also exchanged with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom she had supported last year during the presidential election.
